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Africa wants to make its own games. Building them is still the hard part

If you wanted to understand the passion it truly takes to build a game in Africa, you only needed to witness the morning of MaliyoCon25, the inaugural gaming conference hosted by Maliyo Games, the game developer behind Safari City, Whot King, and Disney’s Iwájú: Rising Chef. The rain poured down heavily on Thursday morning, December

“I expect the same” — Ex-Lazio star eyes AFCON 2013 déjà vu after Chelle’s highly-criticised AFCON 2025 squad

Eric Chelle during Super Eagles clash against Jamaica. Copyright: Imago The former Lazio star urges Nigeria’s Class of 2025 to ignore doubters and give everything as they head to Morocco…. Former Super Eagles midfielder Ogenyi Onazi believes Nigeria’s 2025 Africa Cup Of Nations (AFCON) squad can recreate the spirit of the 2013 champions, Soccernet.ng reports.

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Lagos remains Nigeria’s best state for business, but still needs to fix internet

Lagos has retained its spot as Nigeria’s top-performing state for ease of doing business, reaffirming its commercial dominance, according to a new report by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC). The business environment remains central to Nigeria’s economic resilience, investment attractiveness, and long-term growth prospects. Since 2016, PEBEC has driven reforms such as pushing

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AI learning platform emerges winner at 3MTT South-West innovation hackathon

The Lagos team behind NEVO, an AI-powered personalised learning platform for neurodivergent children, has won the South-West regional hackathon of the third cohort of Nigeria’s 3 Million Technical Talent (3MTT) programme, taking home the ₦500,000 ($339) grand prize at the event held on Tuesday in Lagos. Their victory capped weeks of state-level contests across Lagos

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Keeping up with how fast Africa’s technology ecosystem is moving can be a lot; you need information that cuts through the noise and gives you the real story. Honest, thoughtful conversations that dive deep into what’s actually working in the ecosystem. Luckily, you don’t have to search far to find these expert perspectives. From fintech

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When Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) began migrating the country’s foundational identity system onto an open-source platform known as Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP) in July 2025, it marked one of the most consequential technology shifts in the country’s digital history.  The move is central to the World Bank-backed Nigeria Digital Identity for

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Africa wants to make its own games. Building them is still the hard part

If you wanted to understand the passion it truly takes to build a game in Africa, you only needed to witness the morning of MaliyoCon25, the inaugural gaming conference hosted by Maliyo Games, the game developer behind Safari City, Whot King, and Disney’s Iwájú: Rising Chef. The rain poured down heavily on Thursday morning, December

We asked 22 Nigerian tech workers what they want for Christmas. Here’s the list.

Let’s be honest: the life of a Nigerian tech worker is a grind. You’re building world-class products while juggling unreliable power, slow internet, and endless requests. When those tight deadlines hit and the lights go out, a standard gift basket just won’t cut it. After a year spent coding, scaling, and surviving, the reward needs

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Digital Nomads: Aderohunmu on what African talent needs to be hired globally

Adebayo Aderohunmu’s journey from a sociology classroom in Ile-Ife, southwest Nigeria, to the talent acquisition teams of global tech companies has not been a linear path. In the last five years, his career has tracked the rapid trajectory of Africa’s most ambitious startups from Reliance Health, Moniepoint, Stitch, to LemFi.  Now, as a talent acquisition